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General Electric workers in Peterborough could be on strike as early as Monday after setting a deadline of Sunday at midnight to reach a new collective agreement.

A representative of Canadian Auto Workers Local 524, which represents workers at the General Electric plant on Monaghan Rd., couldn’t be reached for comment. A worker at the union’s office on Park St. told The Examiner that the union’s executive members are in negotiations with company officials in Toronto.

CAW Local 524 posted an update for its members Wednesday.

“Your bargaining committee continues to negotiate in an attempt to achieve a new collective agreement,” it states. “There are several outstanding issues that still need to be resolved.”

Its members are meeting at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School on Sunday “regardless of the outcome.”

Court Elliott, communications and public affairs director for General Electric, issued a statement on behalf of the company.

“Negotiations impact approximately 700 unionized GE employees in Ontario working in the company’s energy services, nuclear and motors businesses. Discussions are ongoing and the parties are working hard to achieve a negotiated settlement,” he stated.